NDLON

NDLON improves the lives of day laborers in the United States. To this end, NDLON works to unify and strengthens is member organizations to be more strategic and effective in their efforts to develop leadership, mobilize, and organize day laborers in order to protect and expand their civil, labor and human rights. NDLON fosters safer more humane environments for day laborer, both men and women, to earn a living, contribute to society, and integrate into the community.

Aloe Blacc

Born in Southern California to Panamanian parents, Blacc released his first hip-hop mixtape in 1996 and was associated with the indie hip-hop scene for many years thanks to his rap duo Emanon (alongside DJ Exile) before going solo. In 2006, he signed to Stones Throw Records and released his genre-bending, debut solo album, Shine Through, followed by 2010's, Good Things, concocting a vintage yet current sound. Good Things, which has been certified gold in France, Germany, and the U.K., included the single "I Need A Dollar," which went on to sell over two million copies worldwide. In 2012, Blacc was nominated for two BRIT Awards (Best International Male Solo Artist and Best International Breakthrough Act). Currently his song "Wake Me Up" is Number 1 on the charts in more than 63 countries.

The Cast

Hareth Andrade Ayala is a immigrants’ rights leader in the state of Virginia. She has spent her teen years traveling across the nation to share her family's story. And recently to fight to stop her own father's deportation.[sign the petition for Hareth's dad here]

Margarita Reyes is a Los Angeles actress and producer whose 's first guest star appearance on prime time was opposite Emmy-award winning actress Alfre Woodard on the television series The Practice. She is currently starring in the film "Combat Ready". Despite being born in the US, Margarita was deported as a child alongside her mother. Much of her work focuses on the issues of Latino and immigrant youth.

Agustín Chiprez Alvarez has been in the US for 18 years. He is a proud father of an infant son and, like in the video, seeks work on Los Angeles day laborer corners to provide for his family. He is a songwriter and first became involved in acting through fellow actor Jose Mangandi at Teatro Jornalero.

Director: Alex Rivera

Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who, for the past fifteen years, has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories.

His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border, won multiple awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, was screened as part of ‘New Directors / New Films’ at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center, and had a commercial release in the U.S, France, Japan, and other countries around the world.

Alex is a Sundance Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow, USA Artist Fellow, Creative Capital grantee and in 2008 was named one of Variety Magazine’s “10 Directors to Watch.” His recent collaborations have included work with Manu Chao, Ana Tijoux, La Santa Cecilia and Maria Hinojosa. Alex studied at Hampshire College and lives between New York and Los Angeles.

This poster, "Stop InSecure Communities" was designed by Alfredo Burgos with color added by Ernesto Yerena. It shows what too many of us know, US immigration policies are tearing families apart. It was released as part of a week of action against the program.

This cartoon, "En Juego" was designed by Alfredo Burgos after the partial injunction of the SB 1070 copy cat law in Georgia. It shows two opposing teams trying to move the ball down the field; one toward attrition, the other toward inclusion. And it shows the incremental steps of progress along the way. We are turning the tide.

BANNED AND BOXED UP POEM by Francisco X. Alarcón this poem has indigenous features and a brown skin like Mother Earth always will be under “reasonable suspicion” this poem roams the open desert before any barbed wire it runs tumultuous like a creek after a monsoon rain this poem breathes the air free of charge like a cloud in the sky it has no need for any legal papers because is borderless this poem doesn’t believe in any imposed mythical melting pot it dreams the dreams of the Native American and Chicano/a authors whose books were taken away from…